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A Skeleton Clue to Early American Ancestry (13 of 13)

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A Skeleton Clue to Early American Ancestry (13 of 13)

video: Divers, using scooters, swim through the tunnel toward Hoyo Negro, emerge from the eastern tunnel into the large chamber, which appears as blackness at their right. The scene shifts to the bottom of the cave, where a diver inspects a gomphothere pelvis and moves a short distance away to point out the skull of the human (Naia). Ends with a closeup of Naia’s skull, as originally found. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the May 16, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by James C. Chatters at Applied Paleoscience and DirectAMS in Bothell, Wash., and colleagues was titled, "Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native-Americans." view more 

Credit: [Filmed and edited by Alberto Nava Blank]


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